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Liz Farmer

Liz Farmer, who formerly covered fiscal policy as a Governing staff writer, helps lead the Pew Charitable Trusts’ state fiscal health project’s Fiscal 50 online resource, focusing on budgets, fiscal distress, tax policy and pensions. A former research fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government’s Future of Labor Research Center, Farmer holds a bachelor’s degree in American history, film and television production from George Washington University and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland.

Congress could overturn a rule that allows states to create private-sector retirement programs. But it only has a limited time to do it.
Their discontent with the status quo and attraction to a big challenge has led to some unexpected moves from city to city.
States and localities are wary of the president's support for the Build America Bonds program.
A continuing education program for teachers has the power to reduce attrition rates, but it's having trouble catching on.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The billionaire philanthropist has vowed to secure retirement for public employees. So why do so many public employees despise him?
D.C. and more than a dozen states are shunning paperless refunds to avoid being conned out of hundreds of millions of dollars.